Agenda

Rationale
This conference envisages providing opportunities to the user departments in Haryana to share their successful GIS projects for the benefit of all other departments; also to discuss the shortcomings in deliverable, if any, and suggestions to address the same in future GIS assignments.
Some commonly observed hindrances in taking the geospatial technology to the operational level include the following:

Expensive proprietary softwares

Difficult technical jargon in foreign (English) language

Lack of sufficient local skilled manpower

Lack of dedicated GIS staff positions, GIS Units/Cells/ in the government entities

Lack of common standards for GIS data creation and a common base map of the State for all state entities to fill in their domain specific spatial information therein.

The list is only indicative and not exhaustive.

Objective
Therefore the conference endeavours to specifically address following barriers:

Use of Hindi or other local vernacular language to overcome/explain the difficult English/technical jargon.

Explore the use of Open Source GIS tools at operational level to make it financially viable/affordable.